Shocking-machine.



Patented Mar. 18, 19131 4 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

G. 'MUARTHUR.

SHOCKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.19, 1910.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH 420., WASHINGTON, D, c.

G. MUARTHUR.

SHOCKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED No.19, 1910.

Patented Mar. 18 1913.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

G. MUARTHUR.

SHOCKING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED DEO.19, 191p.

Patented Mar. 18, 1913.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

G. MOARTHUR.

SHOCKING MACHINE.

,APPLIOATION FILED DE0119,1910.

111116111911 Mar. 18, 1913.

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COLUMBIA PLANOCIRAP" C0" WASHINGTON. D. C-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES MGABTHUR, OF WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MYLES MGARTHUR, 0F WHITEWOOD, CANADA.

SHOCKING-MACHINE.

Application filed December 19, 1910.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 18,1913.

Serial No. 598,209.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES lVICi-kRTHUR, of the city of lVinnipeg, in the Province of Manitoba, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shocking- Machines, of which the following is the specification.

My invention relates to shocking nachines, and the object of the invention is to provide a shocking machine attachable to the ordinary binding machine which will receive the sheaves passed from the binder deck, collect them in the form of a shock and deposit the shock so formed on the ground, such machine being easily operated compact, and having great capacity.

A further object of the invention is to provide a shocking machine which can be shifted backwardly and forwardly relative to the binding machine so as to always receive the sheaves evenly regardless of the length of the sheaves.

The invention consists essentially in the novel arrangement and construction of parts as hereinafter more particularly described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure 1 is a plan view of the complete machine. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same showing means for shifting the deck and adjoining parts. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detailed plan view of the shocking machine carriage wheel and adjoining parts. Fig. 4 is a front view of the cam controlling the fingers. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the arm controllingthe movement of the basket and the gears operating the same. Fig. 6 is an enlarged vertical sectional view through the frame adjoinin the butter. Fig. 7 is a front view of the shift-able part of the binder with the adjoining portions of the shocker.

Fig. 8 is a plan view of the binder frame adjoining the shocking machine. Fig. 9 is an enlarged detailed view of the means for driving the attachment drive shaft, and Fig. 10 is an enlarged detailed sectional view through a second bearing for the attachment drive shaft.

In the drawings like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

a represents the binder frame supplied with the usual cross bars Z) and 0 which carry the bull wheel 1 above which is located the usual deck '2 and the elevator frame 2, the deck being provided with the binding attachment 3 which carries the discharge arms 4 carried by a rotatable shaft 4. The deck 2 is slidably secured to the upper end of the elevator frame at (Z, and has the lower end fitted with the under cross bars 6 slidably mounted on an angle iron support f carried at one end by a bracket 9 secured to the frame and at the other end by an extending beam 72, fastened to the frame.

2' is a brace bar passing between the binder frame and the elevator frame and supporting a crank shaft j having the end thereof connected by a suitable link is to the rear end of the cross bar 6.

Z is a chainwheel rotatably mounted in a bearing m secured to the brace bar 2', and n is a bearing piece rotatably mounted in the downwardly extending portion of the bind ing attachment 3. i

0 is a square drive shaft passing through the bearing n, and the bearing m, which shaft is held against longitudinal displacement by the disk 3) and the collar 9 adjoining the bearing a. The opposite end of the shaft is free to slide through the bearing on when the deck and attachment are shifted by the operator turning the crank rod in a manner which will cause the link to pull the cross bar 6. The shaft can, however, be driven in any shifted position by the chain wheel Z which is tied to the bar i as above described.- The disk is supplied with an arm r connected by a rod 8 with the disk 6 fixed on the forward end of the shaft 4:

It is here to be understood that although the above parts are described in detail, yet I lay no claim to them, as they are at present employed on binding machines. I only introduced this detailed description so that the manner in which the shocker frame can be shifted backwardly and forwardly with the deck and attachment can be clearly understood. Once this is understood my shocking machine can be readily connected up with the various forms of shifting mechanisms now appearing on binding machines. It is to be understood that the deck and attachment is shifted in a binder to accommodate the knotter, it being always desirable to have the sheaf tied more or less centrally whether the crop be heavy or light.

5 represents the shocking machine frame which is more or less rectangular in plan view and is supplied at the outer side with a cross bar 6 formed from angle iron which bar supports the parts shortly to be described. The outer side of the frame 5 is carried by a shaft 7 on which is mounted the combined carriage and drive wheel 8, the wheel being free to turn on the shaft. The inner end of the frame 5 is supported by a link 9 which is permanentlysecured at 9 to the deck or other such shiftable part, and pivotally secured at 9 to the frame A rear link 9 is also permanently secured in a like manner to the deck or other shiftable part and pivotally to the fame 5.

10 is a vertically directed plate secured firmly to the bar 6 and provided centrally with a bearing for a short shaft 11, which shaft supports a second turnable plate 12 to the upper and lower edges on which are secured upper and lower sets of similar arched fingers 13 forming a sheaf receiving and shock forming basket. The fingers of the upper set are connected permanently to a common horizontally disposed cross rod 1%, which rod is carried in suitable bearings formed on the plate. The fingers of the lower set are also united to a common horizontally disposed cross rod 15 likewise mounted in bearings carried by the plate.

16 and 17 are arms secured to the cross rods 14c and 15 respectively, and extending rearwardly toward the plate 10 where they are received within a groove 18 formed in a cam 19 fixed on the plate 10. The groove is constructed so that when the plate 12 is turned from the position shown in Fig. 2 to the vertical position, that is, a quarter revolution, the upper set of arms 13 are immediately closed and remain closed while the lower set of arms are kept closed until the quarter turn is practically complete, at which instant they are quickly swung open. This construction is provided so that the shock formed from sheaves deposited between the fingers will be held tightly by the fingers while they are turning and released so as to fall on to the ground just as the quarter turn already mentioned is completed. The groove in the cam is further formed so that upon the plate being turned a further quarter turn, that is, to complete a half turn, the fingers remain in the positions to which they were previously forced to deposit. the shock. In this connect-ion it is well to understand that the plate is turned forwardly by gears shortly explained, thatis, in the direction in which the machine is progressing. The shaft 11 is supplied with a pinion 20 which is designed to mesh with a gear wheel 21 located on the shaft 7 and adjoining the carriage wheel. A spring 2:2 is interposed between the hub of the car riage wheel and the face of the gear wheel tending always to keep the male and female members of a clutch .23 out of contact.

24 is a bell crank carried in suitable brackets extending from the binder frame, which crank is connected to a link 25 passing to a bell crank 26 pivoted at 27 to the frame. The bell crank is supplied with a forked end which operates in a groove 28 formed in a wheel 29 connected to the inner face of the gear wheel 21. rod 21- is attached to the bell crank 24 and passes within convenient range of the operator on the binder so that when he desires the plate carrying the fingers to turn he has only to pull the rod, which motion operates the bell crank and engages the clutch members.

In order to stop the rotation of the plate :arrying the fingers automatically is provided the following attachmenta collar 30 is permanently secured to the wheel 98, which collar has the end thereof terminating in a rectangular piece 31, which rectangular piece is adapted to pass into and out of a more or less rectangular notch 32 formed in the adjoining member (3 carried by the frame 5, the notch being at the same length as the length of the'rectangular end piece. \Vith this arrangement it will be seen that as soon as the clutch members are engaged the end piece 31 turns, being free of the notch and riding on the adjoining edge of the frame. However as soon as the gear wheel 21 and consequently the end piece 31 has turned sufiiciently far to allow the end piece to slip into the notch the clutch members will be thrown out of engagement by the action of the spring 22. This will occur every half revolution as will be apparent.

33 is a butter extending across the frame and carried by suitable blocks 34. arranged between channel iron pieces 35 located on the frame. Springs 36 pass between the butter and the frame, which springs hold the butter normally in the position shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. A cord 37 passes from the rear of the butter over pulleys 38 and 39 located on the frame to a crank 4.0 carried by a gear wheel +11 rotatably mounted on the side of the plate 10. The gear wheel 41 meshes with a larger gear wheel .42 secured to the shaft. 11 which shaft carries the gear wheel 20 meshing in turn with the gear wheel 21 carried by the shaft 7. The above parts are constructed so that for one revolution of the shaft 11 the crank is swung a half turn. Accordingly the butter 33 is pulled backwardly each time the plate 12 swings and is forced back by the springs.

#13 is a guide plate located on the inner side of the frame, that is, adjoining the deck. The guide plate is bent so that it is concentric to the shaft 4 and adapted to direct the sheaves passed over the deck to the fingers 18, the discharge arms 4 in their rotation forcing the sheaves successively over the guide plate.

The operation of the machine is as now described assuming the parts in the position as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings and the machine advancing. The sheaves passed over the deck are deposited between the fingers 13 by the discharge arms 4, it being noticed that the upper set of fingers are raised. When the operator considers that a suflicient number of sheaves have been placed between the fingers to form proper clear over the top of it as the machine ad-- vances, the set of fingers which were originally under coming to the-top and taking the open position, while the other set of fingers are ready to receive the sheaves deposited from the deck, it being understood, as already explained, that the clutch 23 is thrown out automatically as soon as every half revolution is completed.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. The combination comprising a suitable rectangular frame having an open side, a vertically disposed stationary plate mounted on the frame, a rotatable shaft carried by the plate, means for rotating the shaft, a second plate secured to the shaft and rotatable therewith, opposing sets of fingers pivotally secured to the opposite edges of the rotatable plate, a cam carried by the stationary plate and arms connected to the fingers and having their ends operating in the cam whereby the fingers are moved toward or away from each other when the plate is rotated, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination with a binding machine, the binder deck, the discharge arm and the shiftable attachment carrying the discharge arm, of a rectangular frame having an open side secured to the shiftable at tachment aforesaid at one side and mounted on a suitable carriage wheel at the opposite side, a stationary vertically disposed plate secured to the frame and adjoining the car riage wheel, a rotatable shaft mounted in the plate and rotated by the carriage wheel, a second plate secured permanently to the shaft and rotatable therewith, opposing sets of fingers pivotally secured to the latter plate, arms extending fro-m the fingers and a cam secured to the stationary plate and receiving the arms, as and for the purpose adjoining the carriage wheel, clutch members carried by the drive gear and the carriage wheel, means for throwing the clutch members into and out of clutch, a stationary plate mounted on the frame and adjoining the carriage wheel, a horizontally disposed short shaft rotatably mounted in the plate, a pinion located on the shaft and driven by the drive gear aforesaid, a plate permanently secured to the short shaft and rotatable therewith, opposing sets of fingers pivotally secured to the opposite sides of the rotatable plate, arms secured to the fingers andextending therefrom, and a cam carried by the stationary plate and receiving the extending ends of the arms, as and for the purpose specified.

4;. The combination with a binding machine, the binder deck, the discharge arm and the shiftable attachment carrying the discharge arm, of a rectangular frame having an open side secured to the shiftable attachment aforesaid at one side, a carriage wheel rotatably mounted on a stationary shaft secured to the frame at the opposite side, a drive gear rotatably mounted on the shaft, clutch members carried by the drive gear and the carriage Wheel, means for throwing the clutch member into engagement, means for automatically throwing them out of engagement at a predetermined instant, a stationary vertically disposed plate located on the frame and adjoining the carriage wheel, a horizontally disposed short shaft rotatably mounted in the stationary plate, a pinion secured to the shaft and operated by the drive gear, a plate fixed on the opposite end of the short shaft and rotatable therewith, opposing sets of arched fingers pivotally secured to opposing edges of the rotatable plate, arms extending from the fingers, a cam located on the side of the stationary plate and receiving the extending ends of the arms and a guide plate carried by the frame and adjoining the deck adapted to direct the sheaves deposited from the deck to the fingers, as and for the purpose specified.

5. The combination with the binder deck & 1,056,431

and the shiftabie binding attachmentcarry- Signed at Winnipeg, in the Province of iplg the discharge arms, of a shocking ma- Manitoba, this 3rd day of September, 1910.

c ine adjoining the binder and extending r\ links permanently secured to the shocking CHARLES MCARIUUR' 5 machine directly and swingably secured to In the presence of the shiftable binding attachment of the G. S. ROXBURGH,

hinder, as and for the purpose specified. R. C. SMITH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

